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- schestowitz, on 10/10/2007, -6/+54Animated wallpapers are a gimmick. They are hard to work with. The only animation should be UI-related (interaction feedback). The same goes for Web sites.
- HUKI365, on 10/10/2007, -3/+27Heh, I remember when you posted this before.
Serious nostalgia trip. - grungegbunny, on 10/10/2007, -0/+18cute.. now show me how to run Electric Sheep as my desktop.
- mithrasinvictus, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15thats an easy one: install vista
- nanostream, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11This broke my nautilus, sweet.
- trichecodotcom, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13I want Quake 3 as a desktop wallpaper. With sound.
- omarciddo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Yeah, yeah, double post, sorry.
- pintomp3, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11that's what i need to make my work easier, stuff moving around the screen.
- NinjaBoy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9It happens.
- NinjaBoy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9It happens.
- Shootfast, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7You also wont get any icons. For users of Composite window managers, try out xwinwrap
- omarciddo, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9Heh, I remember Kevin talking about this on the Screen Savers waaaaaaaaaaay back when.
Serious nostalgia trip. - nijin, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8This is so old, I did that years ago, and even then it was lame. It doesn't help in any way, it distracts and wastes resources.
- sirbeta, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7And people complained about the very concept of Active Desktop on Windows taking up resources. Now people want screen savers for wallpapers?
- lengau, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8Just because you don't like what it looks like doesn't mean others don't.
- ToadLeg, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7wtf how do you turn it off? "gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop true" doesn't work!
- Shootfast, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Either compiz, compiz-fusion or beryl
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5I much prefer fading an SVG between colours slowly in Debian or Ubuntu (and presumably other GNU.)
- Remmiz, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6http://www.geisswerks.com/drempels/
Not sure if it still works in Vista or Linux - pHr34kY, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7Yeah, Linux.
- Jugalator, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6seriously... http://www.google.com/search?q=beryl&hl=en&sa=G
Why do you post questions like these and not just type it in Google? - hpfilter, on 10/26/2007, -0/+5gconftool-2 --set "/apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop" --type boolean "true" && nautilus -n
this works .... - spyrochaete, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5If you ever really want to piss someone off, enable active desktop and download a low resolution animated gif. Set it as the wallpaper and tile it or make it fullscreen. Then practise your "it was like that when I get here" face.
- farghal, on 10/26/2007, -0/+5http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=350089
- allywilson, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Have mine changing every 5 secs, think it's a good idea. As long as it doesn't overload my PC - am all for such customisations.
- Teaboy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4At least people will be correct when they call their wallpaper a screensaver.
- Ademan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Resource hog? Well it does take up a fair amount of ram ~13mb but it has never gone above "0" cpu time, if you think about it, that's about right, since 99% of what's going on is on the GPU. The memory usage bugs me though, way high for what it is, unless it's keeping the entire "alphabet" in ram, which i guess is possible.
- pHr34kY, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3My mum thought it was cool...
- makario, on 09/03/2009, -0/+3http://www.beryl-project.org/
- tehmoth, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3most xscreensaver screen savers support the -root option. if you really need the matrix experience as your background, xmatrix is much less of a hog.
- darthdusty, on 10/26/2007, -1/+4Because you touch yourself at night.
- sublime, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Its just a simple command line parameter that many of the screensaver apps support. This news is over 10 years old.
- Resolver, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6Heh, I remember omarciddo talking about this waaaaaaaaaaay back when.
Serious nostalgia trip. - AirRaven, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3http://vital-desktop.sourceforge.net/
There you go. The same thing for Windows, effectively- albeit slightly buggier. - zegermanduck, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4vista users check this:http://home.comcast.net/~van.etten/SSDream/Home/default.htm
- starkes, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4yeah, and the "OMG TERRIBLE THING HAPPENED! DIGG THIS SO HE CAN GET JUSTICE!" style stories benefit .0000000010233% of users. as in, one user. so eat my ass.
- Monk22, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2this was around years before vista, son.
- lonnieh, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3run that and hit ctrl+alt+backspace and log back in
- Jugalator, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Linux is a mere screensaver now?
- NinjaBoy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Heh, I have 3 19" CRT's on my desk. Why do i need a physical desktop when i can have a virtual one.
- hyperair, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3You don't need to restart the X server for that. Just open the run dialog and type "nautilus" and then you're back to normal.
- cbdgr, on 10/10/2007, -8/+10next up how to slow down your productivity, increase your cpu and power usage.
- MioTheGreat, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3http://home.comcast.net/~van.etten/SSDream/Home/default.htm
- Monk22, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1if you used winamp 3 you wouldnt have to ask
- ruehl, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1u can just download zmatrix. but it gets old quick
- Exploit, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1For windowsXP
http://www.freewarefiles.com/program_2_16_3139.html
http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Shell_and_Desktop/Wallpaper_Tools/ScreenPaper.html - Ademan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Also xcompmgr or whatever
- aydoubleyou, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Talk about a resource hog.
- grovermonster, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1thanks for setting the author straight!
- fallenone05, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You beat me to it...http://zmatrix.sourceforge.net/
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